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Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. But the men Vought was ...

As Donald Trump tries to distance his campaign from Project 2025, those behind the right-wing policy blueprint to remake the U.S. government continue to brag in private about their close ties to the ...

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When Donald Trump was president, Russell Vought joined the White House Office of Management and Budget. He was nominated by Trump in April 2017, having served as vice president of the Heritage ...

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